NieR: Automata - Guide to Abundant Machine Arm Acquisition

This guide details how to acquire Machine Arms in NieR: Automata, a crucial crafting material for weapon and pod upgrades. Early acquisition can significantly boost your character's strength.

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• Farming Machine Arms
• Buying Machine Arms

Obtaining Machine Arms early presents a challenge. While they drop from defeated small machines, the drop rate is significantly higher with higher-level enemies.

Farming Machine Arms

The most efficient early-game farming location is the pit where you first encounter Adam after Chapter 4. Access this area via the Desert: Housing Complex fast travel point and proceed into the ruins. This pit continuously respawns small machines, providing a consistent, albeit low-yield, source of Machine Arms. The respawn rate outweighs the low individual drop chance. This location is also beneficial for farming Titanium Alloy. Using a Drop Rate Plug-In Chip offers a minor improvement.

Buying Machine Arms (Spoiler Warning)

The following section contains spoilers for the final playthrough of NieR: Automata.

During the final playthrough as A2, after eliminating the robots from Pascal's village and choosing to erase his memories, Pascal will become a merchant. He offers Machine Arms for purchase, along with other valuable crafting materials:

• Machine Heads - 15,000 G
• Machine Arm - 1,125 G
• Machine Leg - 1,125 G
• Machine Torso - 1,125 G
• Machine Head - 1,125 G (Note: Duplicate entry)
• Children's Cores - 30,000 G